ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (10/29/90)
Sat 27-Oct-90: I have released a new version of my frequently asked questions with answers. It contains both new questions, and updates of the old ones, on general matters of interest to PC users, UseNet users, and Turbo Pascal programmers. It is /pc/ts/tsfaq11.arc. The wares are available by anonymous ftp from chyde.uwasa.fi, Vaasa, Finland, 128.214.12.3, or by using our mail server (use the latter if, and only if you don't have anonymous ftp). If you are not familiar with anonymous ftp or mail servers, I am prepared send prerecorded instructions on request (provided that your email address is reachable). Filename Comment Date Time -------- -------------------------------- ---- ---- FAQ.INF Document (a readme) 10-27-90 22:19:56 FAQ.NWS News announcement about tsfaq 10-27-90 22:17:22 FAQ.TXT Questions & answers from UseNet 10-27-90 18:35:12 FAQPAS.TXT Turbo Pascal questions & answers 10-27-90 22:10:14 PD2ANS.TXT Q&As on uwasa.fi archives & more 10-27-90 21:17:32 ---- ------ ------ ----- 0005 67926 34726 49% -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) How do I capture text from the screen to a file? 2) How do I redirect the output from the screen to the printer? 3) How can I direct all output to a file instead of the printer? 4) Where can I get VT102 emulation codes? 5) Problems with Procomm or Telix VT102 emulation. 6) Is there a program to convert Pascal to C? 7) I need a bigger cursor for my laptop. 8) Where to find a source code for detecting which CPU my PC has? 9) Can anyone recommend me a good linear programming package? 10) Where can I find sources for Unix z-modem? 11) Where can I find sources for Unix arc, lharc, zip, and zoo? 12) How to delete non-empty directories fast? 13) I can't run this file I got with a .zip (.arc etc) extension. 14) Reply by email, I don't usually read this group. 15) What is an appropriate maximum length of a signature? 16) What is the best archiver? 17) Can someone point me to a list of ftp sites? 18) How do I extract from comp.binaries.ibm.pc binary postings? 19) What is the best text editor? 20) Should I offer to email this utility I have at my disposal? 21) Am I safe against viruses if download files from FTP sites? -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) How do I disable or capture the break key in Turbo Pascal? 2) How do I get a printed documentation of my students' TP runs? 3) What is the code for the weekday of a given date? 4) Need a program to format Turbo Pascal source code consistently 5) Can someone give me advice for writing a tsr program? 6) Why can't I read / write the com ports? 7) What are interrupts and how to use them in Turbo Pascal? 8) Should I upgrade my Turbo Pascal version? 9) How do I execute an MsDos command from within a TP program? 10) How is millisecond timing done? 11) How can I customize the text characters to my own liking? 12) How to find the files in a directory and subdirectories? 13) I need a power function but there is none in Turbo Pascal. 14) How can I create arrays that are larger than 64 kilobytes? 15) How can I test that the printer is ready? 16) How can I clear the keyboard type-ahead buffer. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (11/10/90)
Fri 9-Oct-90: Released update /pc/ts/tsfaq12.arc of my frequently asked questions with answers on general matters of interest to PC users, UseNet users, and Turbo Pascal programmers. TSFAQ12.ARC Frequently asked questions & ans Filename Comment Date Time -------- -------------------------------- ---- ---- FAQ.INF Document (a readme) 11-09-90 17:11:10 FAQ.NWS News announcement about tsfaq 11-09-90 17:08:44 FAQ.TXT Questions & answers from UseNet 11-08-90 22:55:10 FAQPAS.TXT Turbo Pascal questions & answers 11-08-90 22:55:40 PD2ANS.TXT Q&As on uwasa.fi archives & more 11-09-90 13:42:18 ---- ------ ------ ----- 0005 78754 39932 50% +------------------------------------------------------------+ ! North American users please note. Maintainer of SIMTEL20 ! ! archives Keith Petersen has expressed a wish that you use ! ! one of the many archives in the USA such as SIMTEL20 and ! ! wuarchive.wustl.edu instead of uwasa.fi to cut down the ! ! load on the overseas link. Please contact him for further ! ! information on SIMTEL20 usage. One of his email addresses ! ! is w8sdz@@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil ! +------------------------------------------------------------+ The wares are available by anonymous ftp from chyde.uwasa.fi, Vaasa, Finland, 128.214.12.3, or by using our mail server (use the latter if, and only if you don't have anonymous ftp). If you are not familiar with anonymous ftp or mail servers, I am prepared send prerecorded instructions on request. (If you don't get the instructions from me within a few days, it will mean that your email address cannot be reached by a simple email reply, and you wouldn't be able to utilize the mail server anyway.) ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (11/16/90)
Thu 15-Nov-90: Released update /pc/ts/tsfaq13.arc of my frequently asked questions with answers on general matters of interest to PC users, UseNet users, and Turbo Pascal programmers. New questions and answers have been added, and some of the old answers have been updated. Available by anonymous ftp or mail server from uwasa.fi, Vaasa, Finland (and from Simtel20 with a slight lag from this posting). -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) How do I capture text from the screen to a file? 2) How do I redirect the output from the screen to the printer? 3) How can I direct all output to a file instead of the printer? 4) Where can I get VT102 emulation codes? 5) Problems with Procomm or Telix VT102 emulation. 6) Is there a program to convert Pascal to C? 7) I need a bigger cursor for my laptop. 8) Where to find a source code for detecting which CPU my PC has? 9) Can anyone recommend me a good linear programming package? 10) Where can I find sources for Unix z-modem? 11) Where can I find sources for Unix arc, lharc, zip, and zoo? 12) How to delete non-empty directories fast? 13) I can't run this file I got with a .zip (.arc etc) extension. 14) Reply by email, I don't usually read this group. 15) What is an appropriate maximum length of a signature? 16) What is the best archiver? 17) Can someone point me to a list of ftp sites? 18) How do I extract from comp.binaries.ibm.pc binary postings? 19) What is the best text editor? 20) Should I offer to email this utility I have at my disposal? 21) Am I safe against viruses if download files from FTP sites? 22) Where can I find a program to expand the keyboard buffer? 23) Someone email me a .zip extractor (or something equally common) 24) How should I react to "a dying boy's last wish"? 25) How should I react to crackpot messages? 26) How should I react to abusive email? 27) How do I submit my PC program to the binaries? 28) May just go ahead and I post binaries in non-moderated groups? 29) How to make z-modem transfer between a Unix mainframe and my PC? 30) Where can I find Unix-like utilities for my MsDos PC? 31) What is cross-posting? How do I do it? -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) How do I disable or capture the break key in Turbo Pascal? 2) How do I get a printed documentation of my students' TP runs? 3) What is the code for the weekday of a given date? 4) Need a program to format Turbo Pascal source code consistently 5) Can someone give me advice for writing a tsr program? 6) Why can't I read / write the com ports? 7) What are interrupts and how to use them in Turbo Pascal? 8) Should I upgrade my Turbo Pascal version? 9) How do I execute an MsDos command from within a TP program? 10) How is millisecond timing done? 11) How can I customize the text characters to my own liking? 12) How to find the files in a directory and subdirectories? 13) I need a power function but there is none in Turbo Pascal. 14) How can I create arrays that are larger than 64 kilobytes? 15) How can I test that the printer is ready? 16) How can I clear the keyboard type-ahead buffer. 17) How can I utilize expanded memory (EMS) in my programs? 18) How can I obtain the entire command line? 19) How do I redirect text from printer to file in my TP program? -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) What is this anonymous ftp? 2) Send file(s) to me by email. (Or how to use the mail server?) 3) Why announce programs in c.b.i.p.d when not everybody can ftp? 4) Do you announce all additions to your archives in c.b.i.p.d? 5) How is anonymous ftp used? 6) When I try to unpack the package I received, it is corrupt. 7) Send me a list where on Simtel20 I can find the same programs. 8) What is chyde.wasa.fi guest user-id? 9) The packages won't run on my PC when I type their names. 10) I have made some programs myself. Are you interested? 11) I want a description of the programs to decide what to get. 12) Why don't you reply to my email messages? 13) I get an "unknown packing method" error message. 14) I need a program for such and such purpose. Any directions? 15) What are these peculiar files with a .Z extension? 16) Where does one get the files listed in files-mm.zip? 17) I have this technical problem with anonymous ftp. 18) Is there any way of automating getting the files? 19) Why doesn't your mail server respond to my correct request? ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (11/25/90)
Sun 25-Nov-90: Released update /pc/ts/tsfaq14.arc of my frequently asked questions with answers on general matters of interest to PC users, UseNet users, and Turbo Pascal programmers. Since there are quite a number of questions & answers, I have reorganized the files within the package into more categories than in the previous version. Available by anonymous ftp or mail server from uwasa.fi (Vaasa, Finland) archives or an ftp site near you. (If you don't know what this means you can email me for prerecorded instructions.) TSFAQ14.ARC Frequently asked questions & ans Filename Comment Date Time -------- -------------------------------- ---- ---- FAQ.INF Document (a readme) 11-25-90 10:49:24 FAQ.NWS News announcement about tsfaq 11-25-90 09:33:34 FAQNEWS.TXT Q&As relating to UseNet news 11-25-90 10:42:12 FAQPAS.TXT Turbo Pascal questions & answers 11-25-90 10:25:44 FAQPROGS.TXT Questions answers about programs 11-25-90 09:51:06 FAQUOTE.TXT Postings and email of interest 11-25-90 09:51:18 PD2ANS.TXT Q&As on uwasa.fi archives & more 11-18-90 13:21:56 TSPROG.INF List of PD programs from T.Salmi 11-11-90 10:50:34 VAASA.INF Info: Finland, Vaasa, U of Vaasa 02-02-90 11:52:54 ---- ------ ------ ----- 0009 116058 60345 49% -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) What does "Subject: Re: none" mean in the news? 2) Why "Reply by email, I don't read this group" gets flamed? 3) What is an appropriate maximum length of a signature? 4) Can someone point me to a list of ftp sites? 5) How do I extract from comp.binaries.ibm.pc binary postings? 6) Should I offer to email this utility I have at my disposal? 7) Someone email me a .zip extractor (or something equally common) 8) How should I react to "a dying boy's last wish"? 9) How should I react to crackpot messages? 10) How should I react to abusive email? 11) How do I submit my PC program to the binaries? 12) May just go ahead and I post binaries in non-moderated groups? 13) What is cross-posting? How do I do it? -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) How do I capture text from the screen to a file? 2) How do I redirect the output from the screen to the printer? 3) How can I direct all output to a file instead of the printer? 4) Where can I get VT102 emulation codes? 5) Problems with Procomm or Telix VT102 emulation. 6) Is there a program to convert Pascal to C? 7) I need a bigger cursor for my laptop. 8) Where to find a source code for detecting which CPU my PC has? 9) Can anyone recommend me a good linear programming package? 10) Where can I find sources for Unix z-modem? 11) Where can I find sources for Unix arc, lharc, zip, and zoo? 12) How to delete non-empty directories fast? 13) I can't run this file I got with a .zip (.arc etc) extension. 14) What is the best archiver? 15) What is the best text editor? 16) Am I safe against viruses if download files from FTP sites? 17) Where can I find a program to expand the keyboard buffer? 18) How to make z-modem transfer between a Unix mainframe and my PC? 19) Where can I find Unix-like utilities for my MsDos PC? 20) How can I hide files and directories? -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) How do I disable or capture the break key in Turbo Pascal? 2) How do I get a printed documentation of my students' TP runs? 3) What is the code for the weekday of a given date? 4) Need a program to format Turbo Pascal source code consistently 5) Can someone give me advice for writing a tsr program? 6) Why can't I read / write the com ports? 7) What are interrupts and how to use them in Turbo Pascal? 8) Should I upgrade my Turbo Pascal version? 9) How do I execute an MsDos command from within a TP program? 10) How is millisecond timing done? 11) How can I customize the text characters to my own liking? 12) How to find the files in a directory and subdirectories? 13) I need a power function but there is none in Turbo Pascal. 14) How can I create arrays that are larger than 64 kilobytes? 15) How can I test that the printer is ready? 16) How can I clear the keyboard type-ahead buffer. 17) How can I utilize expanded memory (EMS) in my programs? 18) How can I obtain the entire command line? 19) How do I redirect text from printer to file in my TP program? 20) Turbo Pascal is for wimps. Use standard Pascal or C instead? ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun